Study Sample (N = 203)

Affective Empathy

Sympathy

Cognitive Empathy

Factor 1: Affective Empathy

When a patient or his/her relative is anxious, I become anxious too

0.880

When a patient or his/her relative is angry, I feel angry too

0.862

When a patient or his/her relative is scared, I feel afraid

0.842

When a patient or his/her relative is sad, I become sad too

0.758

Factor 2: Sympathy

I am concerned for relatives of patients with terminal illness

0.860

I feel concerned for patients who have a terminal illness

0.811

I am sorry for a patient or his/her relative who feels sad

0.775

I feel sorry for a patient who has just been informed that he/she has a terminal illness

0.660

Factor 3: Cognitive Empathy

I can often understand how a patient or his/her relative is feeling even before he/she tells me

0.753

I can tell when a patient or his/her relative acts happy when he/she actually is not

0.745

I can easily tell how a patient or his/her relative is feeling

0.720

I can tell when a patient or his/her relative is angry even if he/she tries to hide it

0.698

Eigenvalues

4.154

1.975

1.739

% of variance

34.619

16.456

14.494

Cronbach α

0.881

0.804

0.728